Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce The Big Apple, a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Merriam-Webster Dictionarywork·a·hol·ic noun \ˌwər-kə-ˈhȯ-lik, -ˈhä-\
: a person who chooses to work a lot : a person who is always working, thinking about work, etc.
Origin of WORKAHOLIC
work + -aholic
First Known Use: 1968

5 April 1947, Toronto (Ontario) Daily Star, pg. 6:
If you are cursed with an unconquerable craving for work, call Workaholics Synonymous, and a reformed worker will aid you back to happy idleness.

13 June 1962, Thomasville Times-Enterprise, “Work: Is It A Curse?”, pg. 4, col. 1:
But how should a young man starting out in life guard against becoming a workaholic?
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-- Ormund Powers—Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.